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US private equity giant Blackstone has agreed to pay $17.3 billion for a majority stake in the financial services unit of Thomson Reuters, a source familiar with the deal said Tuesday. The deal would give Blackstone a controlling stake in the unit that delivers financial research and other tools to market ...

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The United States Department of Justice announced Wednesday the arrest of a man authorities say stole classified information from the government. The suspect in question is Harold Thomas Martin, age 51, Reuters reported. He was a government contractor with Booz Allen Hamilton, the management firm that also employed National Security Agency ...

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Facebook announced Wednesday that government requests for account data have surged in the first half of 2015, Reuters reported. The social media giant has reportedly been seeing a steady increase in such requests since it began releasing account data two years ago. In a blog post, Facebook announced that global government ...

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Daniel Loeb-led Third Point LLC has bought less than 5 percent stake in Japan’s second-largest grocery and retail group Seven & I Holdings Co., according to reports Tuesday. The move marks the U.S. hedge fund manager’s fifth foray into Japan in two years. The billionaire activist investor has also urged the ...

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s bid to boost U.S. economic ties with Asia neared approval on Wednesday, when a six-week congressional battle will culminate in a decisive Senate vote on legislation needed to seal his hallmark Pacific Rim trade deal. After two brushes with failure, some fancy legislative footwork and ...

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Ned Parker, the Baghdad bureau chief for Reuters, has left Iraq after receiving threats on Facebook and a satellite news channel run by a Shiite paramilitary group, the news agency reported Saturday. The threats began last week after Parker and two colleagues reported on lynchings and looting in ...

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Two separate attacks marred the relatively peaceful status of Nigeria’s delta region this week. According to a Reuters report, gunmen killed nine people and wounded two before setting fire to a local politician’s house in Rivers state on Friday, while another group of militants from the Urhobo ethnic ...

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British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday that the alternatives to striking a nuclear deal with Iran are “not attractive”, Reuters reported. At the same time, he said that a pact with Tehran should not be reached at any price. “Obviously we should not do a deal ...

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Saudi Arabia’s oil minister Sunday said OPEC has had little success in getting nonmembers of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries to cooperate with it as oil prices plummet. Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi said the other countries want OPEC to prop up oil prices on its own, ...

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The English and Chinese language websites of the international news agency Reuters were inaccessible in China on Friday, following interruptions experienced by users late on Thursday. With the latest outage, Reuters has joined a list of leading media outlets that have faced accessibility issues in China. The websites ...